Following the presentation of the Green Deal last December, the EU Commission initiated the reform of the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) with the objective to improve quality, consistency, comparability, as well as accessibility of...
Last week, the multi-stakeholder platform accompanying the European Commission’s work on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted a paper with wide-ranging recommendations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the EU’s...
On November 20th Eurostat, the statistical office for the European Commission, released their first progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report looked at 100 targets, out of 169, and included Transparency...
Will 2017 be remembered as a turning point in the global fight against corruption? Given the scale of the challenge – more than half of the 176 countries ranked in Transparency international ’s Corruption Perceptions Index could be classified as...
It’s been two years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On September 25, 2015 the EU signed on to these aspirational international development targets to create a better, more equal and sustainable future. The SDGs...
In 2014, Transparency International published its first Anti-corruption Assessment of the Climate Investment Funds. The assessment reviewed the Funds’ governance designs and their transparency, accountability, and integrity policies and...
Last November amid the burgundy red buildings and blues skies of Marrakech countries from all over the globe came together for the annual Conference of Parties (COP) meeting on climate change. One of the agreements to come out of the COP 22 was to...
Corruption is rife in many of the developing countries that supply the EU market with tropical timber. How can the EU rise to the challenge of protecting the world’s forests from corruption and deforestation? New report by Transparency...
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the transparency, integrity, and democratic accountability provisions in place at the European Investment Bank, the EU’s bank. The report is structured around the EIB’s independence, transparency,...